Under Akam poetry comes what is supposed to be the most internal, personal and directly incommunicable human experience, and that is love and all its emotional phases. All that does not come under this internal and interior experience is classed as Puram. While love poetry is Akam, all the other poetry, elgiac, panegyric and heroic is Puram. In Puram poetry, the study of Nature is mainly objective and consists in similies and metaphors,whereas in
Akam poetry Nature is background and sympathetic stage for the emotional and aesthetic aspects of love.
There is in Tamil love poetry much of the sympathetic interpretation of the Nature whereby
Nature is brought into relationship with man, furnishing lessons and analogies to human conduct and human …show more content…
But according to the legend only 49 poets formed the third Tamil Sangam or academy. So we do not know who the academic members were and who just poets were.
There was another Dravida Sangam established by a Jain scholar known as Vajranandhi in
470 AD. The later works like Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam talks about rivalries and fights among
Sangam poets and Shiva had to come to the rescue of genuine poets. But this division was not mentioned in the old Tamil literature.
Existence of third Tamil Sangam in Madurai was confirmed by Appar Thevaram and Andal
Tiruppavai. Appar not only refers to Tamil Sangam but also refers to a popular episode of a poor poet called Dharumi and his clash with Nakkeerar. Over forty of Sangam poets had the prefix Madurai in their names.
Two Tsunamis
16 Since there were at least two references to Tsunamis and four references to earth quakes in
Sangam Tamil and post Sangam Tamil verses we can be sure of some natural catastrophes.
The reason for the doubts about their existence came from the big number of kings, big number of poets they sponsored and the years the kings ruled. If we take those years as exaggerated or coded language then we can reconcile the …show more content…
When that was also devoured by the sea they moved further south and established the third Tamil Sangam in modern Madurai. During the second academy
Tolkappiyam was written by Tolkappiyar. At present Tolkappiyam is the oldest available
Tamil work, which is grammar book. Scholars date it to first century BC or AD. Some kings and poets who were part of First (Murinjiyur Mudinagarayar) and Second Sangam wrote a few poems which are included in Sangam corpus of Tamil literature (Panamparar,
Kakkaipatiniyar). Tamil Classics of the Sangam era speak of Three Conclaves of Poets
(Tamil Sangam).
17 According to Tamilian legends, there were three Sangam periods, namely Head Sangam,
Middle Sangam and Last Sangam period. Historians use the term Sangam period to refer the last of these, the first two being legendary. So it is also called Last Sangam period, or Third
Sangam period. The Sangam literature is thought to have been produced in three Sangam academies of each period. The evidence on the early history of the Tamil kingdoms
Akam poetry Nature is background and sympathetic stage for the emotional and aesthetic aspects of love.
There is in Tamil love poetry much of the sympathetic interpretation of the Nature whereby
Nature is brought into relationship with man, furnishing lessons and analogies to human conduct and human …show more content…
But according to the legend only 49 poets formed the third Tamil Sangam or academy. So we do not know who the academic members were and who just poets were.
There was another Dravida Sangam established by a Jain scholar known as Vajranandhi in
470 AD. The later works like Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam talks about rivalries and fights among
Sangam poets and Shiva had to come to the rescue of genuine poets. But this division was not mentioned in the old Tamil literature.
Existence of third Tamil Sangam in Madurai was confirmed by Appar Thevaram and Andal
Tiruppavai. Appar not only refers to Tamil Sangam but also refers to a popular episode of a poor poet called Dharumi and his clash with Nakkeerar. Over forty of Sangam poets had the prefix Madurai in their names.
Two Tsunamis
16 Since there were at least two references to Tsunamis and four references to earth quakes in
Sangam Tamil and post Sangam Tamil verses we can be sure of some natural catastrophes.
The reason for the doubts about their existence came from the big number of kings, big number of poets they sponsored and the years the kings ruled. If we take those years as exaggerated or coded language then we can reconcile the …show more content…
When that was also devoured by the sea they moved further south and established the third Tamil Sangam in modern Madurai. During the second academy
Tolkappiyam was written by Tolkappiyar. At present Tolkappiyam is the oldest available
Tamil work, which is grammar book. Scholars date it to first century BC or AD. Some kings and poets who were part of First (Murinjiyur Mudinagarayar) and Second Sangam wrote a few poems which are included in Sangam corpus of Tamil literature (Panamparar,
Kakkaipatiniyar). Tamil Classics of the Sangam era speak of Three Conclaves of Poets
(Tamil Sangam).
17 According to Tamilian legends, there were three Sangam periods, namely Head Sangam,
Middle Sangam and Last Sangam period. Historians use the term Sangam period to refer the last of these, the first two being legendary. So it is also called Last Sangam period, or Third
Sangam period. The Sangam literature is thought to have been produced in three Sangam academies of each period. The evidence on the early history of the Tamil kingdoms